[jira] Updated: (LUCENE-605) Make Explanation include information about match/non-match

2006-06-20 Thread Hoss Man (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-605?page=all ] Hoss Man updated LUCENE-605: Attachment: demo-subclassing-explanation-approach.patch patch showing the first steps towards the subclassing approach. I definitely think this is a much better way to

[jira] Updated: (LUCENE-451) BooleanQuery explain with boost==0

2006-06-20 Thread Hoss Man (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-451?page=all ] Hoss Man updated LUCENE-451: Attachment: bq.containing.clause.with.zero.boost.tests.patch a revised version of hte previous tst patch ... this fixes a lot of the things that made the tests "invali

Re: Core vs Contrib

2006-06-20 Thread DM Smith
I think that it might be good to define 3 levels: fundamental - what all programs probably will use useful - what many programs might use and contrib - mostly examples and code that is not quite ready to be classed as useful On Jun 16, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote: Are there any

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 6/20/06, DM Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem we have is trying to explain to users how to install java in order to get our application to work. Ahh... if you didn't already have a large code base, I'd suggest trying PyLucene in conjunction with freeze (which can make a python pro

RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Robert Engels
Finding good SWT support on anything but the latest (and major) OS's is going to be rather poor and inconsistent. Just check the SWT bugs (especially for things like printing). For a company that seems to want to allow their users to stay in the dark ages - good luck with SWT. -Original Messa

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Andi Vajda
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, DM Smith wrote: We are planning to migrate from Swing to Eclipse's RCP/JFace/SWT and then we can and would use GCJ. If Lucene goes to Java 5, we will need to re-examine those plans. If you are planning to compile Java Lucene with gcj you may want to take a look at the t

RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Robert Engels
Installing Java requires about 2 mouse clicks from java.sun.com. Installing Java from your distribution CD (if you don't have one) requires no mouse clicks. -Original Message- From: DM Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:24 PM To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Su

RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Robert Engels
I don't follow... If a user came to you and said I want to run BibleDesktop, and they have MS-DOS, you would tell them you can't (or you might have to run the very old BibleDesktop 1.0). If they told you they have Windows 98 with Java 1.4 and 256mb or memory, you would say you can run BibleDeskto

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread DM Smith
On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: On 6/20/06, DM Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any case, there is still GCJ too. If GCJ supported 1.5, and we > could make a 1.4 library with Retrotranslator, that should cover most > users, right? If I am not mistaken: future support

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread DM Smith
On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: - Original Message From: DM Smith On 6/20/06, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: Sorry, for some reason my Yahoo email doesn't prepend ">" on replies, so I'll use "OG" for my lines. In my situation, I am constantly working on improvin

[jira] Updated: (LUCENE-569) NearSpans skipTo bug

2006-06-20 Thread paul.elschot (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-569?page=all ] paul.elschot updated LUCENE-569: Attachment: NearSpansOrdered.java NearSpansUnordered.java These two attachments (NearSpansOrdered and NearSpansUnordered), together with the ne

[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-415) Merge error during add to index (IndexOutOfBoundsException)

2006-06-20 Thread Yonik Seeley (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-415?page=comments#action_12416990 ] Yonik Seeley commented on LUCENE-415: - Thanks Andy! I've committed a patch to set the length to zero if it wasn't already. If this doesn't also fix the "some fairly odd

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
This looks like a very good find that might solve our problems and put an end to the discussion. It looks like this would require a change to the build process (Ant stuff) and nothing else. If anyone want to contribute a patch (Ray? Steve? Dan? DM Smith?), I'd love to test it out and commit it,

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 6/20/06, DM Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any case, there is still GCJ too. If GCJ supported 1.5, and we > could make a 1.4 library with Retrotranslator, that should cover most > users, right? If I am not mistaken: future support for 1.5 in gcj is ambiguous and/or will be incomplete.

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
- Original Message From: DM Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This poll does not indicate anything about Lucene. It is open to anyone who goes to quimble and searches on Java. OG: Oh, come on now! :) Are people really going through a site like Quimble looking for java polls? Come on! No, of

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
- Original Message From: DM Smith On 6/20/06, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: Sorry, for some reason my Yahoo email doesn't prepend ">" on replies, so I'll use "OG" for my lines. In my situation, I am constantly working on improving an open source application. Our use of Lucene is ver

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
I think the decision was made among developers without asking for much user input. I think that made a huge difference. Otis - Original Message From: Michael McCandless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Cc: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:30:3

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread DM Smith
On 6/20/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In any case, there is still GCJ too. If GCJ supported 1.5, and we could make a 1.4 library with Retrotranslator, that should cover most users, right? I just took a look at GCJ again. If I am not mistaken: future support for 1.5 in gcj is

[jira] Resolved: (LUCENE-398) ParallelReader crashes when trying to merge into a new index

2006-06-20 Thread Yonik Seeley (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-398?page=all ] Yonik Seeley resolved LUCENE-398: - Fix Version: 2.0.1 Resolution: Fixed Assign To: Yonik Seeley (was: Lucene Developers) Thanks for tracking this down Christian! I've committed

[jira] Resolved: (LUCENE-607) ParallelTermEnum is BROKEN

2006-06-20 Thread Yonik Seeley (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-607?page=all ] Yonik Seeley resolved LUCENE-607: - Fix Version: 2.0.1 Resolution: Fixed Assign To: Yonik Seeley Looks fine to me, (committed.) Thanks for another high-quality patch Chuck! > Pa

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 6/20/06, Ray Tsang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think retrotranslator only work on the syntax, but not on the 1.5 specific libraries (for obvious reasons). I was going by the link provided: http://retrotranslator.sourceforge.net/ What Java 5.0 features are supported? * Generics (generic

[jira] Updated: (LUCENE-608) deprecate Document.fields(), add getFields()

2006-06-20 Thread Daniel Naber (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-608?page=all ] Daniel Naber updated LUCENE-608: Attachment: document.diff > deprecate Document.fields(), add getFields() > > > Key: LUCENE-608 >

[jira] Created: (LUCENE-608) deprecate Document.fields(), add getFields()

2006-06-20 Thread Daniel Naber (JIRA)
deprecate Document.fields(), add getFields() Key: LUCENE-608 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-608 Project: Lucene - Java Type: Improvement Components: Other Versions: 2.0.0 Reporter: Daniel

RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Robert Engels
I don't know much about those tools, but it wouldn't seem feasible to supply 1.5 compatible libraries (otherwise the stupid classpath project would have been abandoned long ago). I think the bug fixing that has gone into 1.5 libraries is just as important as the language changes. -Original Me

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Ray Tsang
I think retrotranslator only work on the syntax, but not on the 1.5 specific libraries (for obvious reasons). A real use case was written up by a Java 5 web mvc framework at http://stripes.mc4j.org/confluence/display/stripes/Java+1.4+and+Stripes Once again, so long we stay away from non-1.4 compa

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 6/20/06, Steven Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could not tools like Retrotranslator[2] or Retroweaver[3] be used to satisfy both camps? That's an interesting option Steven... Retrotranslator certainly looks like they handle almost everything! If we ended up taking that route, we have enoug

Re: [jira] Commented: (LUCENE-398) ParallelReader crashes when trying to merge into a new index

2006-06-20 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On a side note, please feel free to vote for bugs to get the attention of a committer. Opening a duplicate bug just makes it harder to straighten out things in the long run and fills JIRA with cruft. I fully intend to start working on popular issues (hence the need for votes) after my move in

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Yonik Seeley
I agree with most of the points Otis makes. As a developer I would prefer to develop in Java5. As I do all my Solr development in Java5, it would be nice to be able to move some common stuff to Lucene more easily. Now I have to plan ahead of time if I think it has a decent probability of being

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread DM Smith
This poll does not indicate anything about Lucene. It is open to anyone who goes to quimble and searches on Java. On 6/16/06, Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It looks like I would have won a beer had anyone wagered me. 1.5 IS the Java version that the majority Lucene users use, not

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Grant Ingersoll
To me, I am just as likely to make contributions in 1.4 as I am 1.5 and I am running 1.5 in my daily life. I just don't find it all that hard to do 1.4 for Lucene since IntelliJ allows me to set my compiler version for the Lucene project and then forget about it, going about creating my patche

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Steven Rowe
Doug Cutting wrote: [T]his isn't a user-versus-user issue, but rather a user-versus-developer issue, where we, the developers, have all the power. The poll[1] seems to indicate that a large minority of users are using Lucene with Java 1.4, and it has been asserted (without contention) that m

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread DM Smith
On 6/20/06, Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry, for some reason my Yahoo email doesn't prepend ">" on replies, so I'll use "OG" for my lines. - Original Message From: Dan Armbrust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Also, at my place of employment we have about 40,000 desktop comput

RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Michael McCandless
Could someone shed light on how the decision to transition from Java 1.3 to Java 1.4 unfolded? Any lessons learned or applicable here? Mike "Robert Engels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/20/2006 02:24 PM Please respond to java-dev@lucene.apache.org To cc Subject RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene

RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Robert Engels
I think your statement "do not seem to fully appreciate the volunteer-contribution model" hits the nail on the head. There is a minority that wants everything for free, wants it work exactly as they want, and then have the audacity to tell the others they should do more even work to make them happ

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Doug Cutting
Robert Engels wrote: I have another idea. Why don't we just let the voted committers decide amongst themselves. If push comes to shove, this decision will be made by consensus of the Lucene PMC. Any member of the PMC can veto any change to the code. http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Chuck Williams
I think Otis put things perfectly and would like to second everything he's said. This is about facilitating more contributions from the majority vs. creating a version that the minority can use. To answer Otis's question, "How small does the percentage of 1.4 users need to be, before we can have

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread DM Smith
I would like to suggest that a central core Lucene be identified and that core be maintained as compatible for Java 1.4. It has also been stated that J2ME compatibility is a future goal. It would be nice to consider that in defining a central core. (BTW, there are two J2ME standards, one is a

[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-569) NearSpans skipTo bug

2006-06-20 Thread paul.elschot (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-569?page=comments#action_12416949 ] paul.elschot commented on LUCENE-569: - TestSpanExplanations (latest) with the SpanScorer.explain.testcase.patch passes here, but my intermediate version of NearSpansOrdere

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Janssen
> A clear majority has voted. Why can't we > listen to them and move forward??? Just to be clear: a (badly designed) poll was taken. No one "voted". Bill - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-m

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Sorry, for some reason my Yahoo email doesn't prepend ">" on replies, so I'll use "OG" for my lines. - Original Message From: Dan Armbrust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Robert Engels wrote: > > People making these arguments against 1.5 sound really ill-informed, or > lazy. Neither of which is go

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread John Haxby
Robert Engels wrote: To set the record straight, I think the Lucene product and community are fantastic. Period. Ditto. [snip] After almost 2 years I now back the move. Why? Several reasons: 1. Sun is very slow, if at all to fix bugs in 1.4 (of which there are many). For example, the curren

RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Robert Engels
I have another idea. Why don't we just let the voted committers decide amongst themselves. Since they are principally charged with maintaining the code quality and feature set, they are in the best position to make the decision. -Original Message- From: Dan Armbrust [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

lucene in combination with pattern recognition...

2006-06-20 Thread bruce
hi... i'm looking at a problem and i can't figure out how to "easily" solve it... basically, i'm trying to figure out if there's a way to use lucene/nutch with some form of pattern matching to extract course information from a College/Registrar's course section... Assume I can point to a Regiatr

RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Robert Engels
To set the record straight, I think the Lucene product and community are fantastic. Period. I was also not the one who starting in with what could be termed 'aggressive' language. Our company does not fully support 1.5. I was the loudest voice against the move to 1.5. After almost 2 years I now

Re: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Dan Armbrust
Robert Engels wrote: People making these arguments against 1.5 sound really ill-informed, or lazy. Neither of which is good for open-source development. Preface - I'm not a lucene developer - just an interested user. I don't know - it seems to me that it is the 1.5 crowd that is making the

RE: Results (Re: Survey: Lucene and Java 1.4 vs. 1.5)

2006-06-20 Thread Chris Hostetter
: From: Robert Engels : The "lazy" refers to the ability/desire of the 1.4 "users & developers" to : devote their resources to back-porting the code to the 2.0.X release. Rather : than having the 1.5 developers having to waste their time "thinking" in 1.4 : when their work is predominately being